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President Reagan is Still Teaching Me About Leadership

Kevin Eikenberry

The President asked him to repeat the question, and the energy in the room was further dampened. I reprise it today for three reasons. To celebrate the life of the late President Reagan on what would have been his 100th birthday. No one in the audience could understand and the room became tense. Again, no one understood.

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There Will Be Oil, But At What Price?

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. They also hide the declining energy density, higher cost, and lower flow rates of these new resources.

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Frugal Innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan

Harvard Business Review

Rather, Western firms need to make simplicity a key tenet of their innovation process by developing "good enough" offerings that deliver significant value for money to cost-conscious consumers. For example, in 2004, Renault launched Logan, a small, no-frills family car. And they did it. lakhs ($6,600).

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

First, you need to inject new energy into a tired organization under stress. Third, you need to locate key employees at the front line and promote them — as a source of knowledge and energy, and as a signal that the future will be about merit and open-mindedness. Build a Re-Founding Team. By 1993 the company had $1.3

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. Apple has since figured out this balance, of course, by opening the iOS platforms to app developers. Failure to engage developers. The Platform Economy. Sponsored by Accenture.